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Fall Roster Overanalysis

In the spring I combed through the roster for weight changes in an effort to read the portents included therein. Today, on National Overreact To A Tiny Slice Of Information Day, we return to the Ouija board.

Unfortunately, the spring roster has been obliterated in favor of the official fall roster so I can only do the full comparison on players whose weight changes from fall 2009 to spring 2010 were deemed "significant." I do have the previous fall roster and have included any players of note from that; anyone who didn't appear in the last edition was one or two pounds off.

Presenting MANY NUMBERS. Projected starters are in bold; I didn't bother trying to guess at QB and RB:

QB

Player

2009

Spring

2010

Fall to Spring

Spring To Fall

2009 to 2010

Denard Robinson

185

--

193

--

--

8

Tate Forcier

188

194

192

6

-2

4

RUNNING BACK

Player

2009

Spring

2010

Fall to Spring

Spring To Fall

2009 to 2010

John McColgan

227

--

231

--

--

4

Fitzgerald Toussaint

185

--

200

--

--

15

Michael Cox

208

--

211

--

--

3

Michael Shaw

178

--

187

--

--

9

Vincent Smith

168

--

180

--

--

12

WIDE RECEIVER

Player

2009

Spring

2010

Fall to Spring

Spring To Fall

2009 to 2010

Junior Hemingway

220

227

225

7

-2

5

Darryl Stonum

196

193

195

-3

2

-1

Je'Ron Stokes

181

187

193

6

6

12

Jeremy Gallon

165

171

180

6

9

15

Kelvin Grady

168

--

176

--

--

8

Martavious Odoms

172

--

175

--

--

3

Roy Roundtree

170

169

176

-1

7

6

Terrence Robinson

171

--

175

--

--

4

TIGHT END

Player

2009

Spring

2010

Fall to Spring

Spring To Fall

2009 to 2010

Kevin Koger

249

--

255

--

--

6

Martell Webb

245

257

255

12

-2

10

Brandon Moore

243

260

250

17

-10

7

OFFENSIVE LINE

Player

2009

Spring

2010

Fall to Spring

Spring To Fall

2009 to 2010

Mark Huyge

288

305

306

17

1

18

Michael Schofield

268

281

293

13

12

25

Quinton Washington

325

307

315

-18

8

-10

Ricky Barnum

275

282

286

7

4

11

Rocko Khoury

283

291

295

8

4

12

Taylor Lewan

268

283

294

15

11

26

David Molk

275

270

285

-5

15

10

Elliott Mealer

299

310

313

11

3

14

Stephen Schilling

304

--

308

--

--

4

John Ferrara

279

--

286

--

--

7

Patrick Omameh

276

293

299

17

6

23

Perry Dorrestein

306

--

321

--

--

15

DEFENSIVE LINE

Player

2009

Spring

2010

Fall to Spring

Spring To Fall

2009 to 2010

Adam Patterson

263

272

276

9

4

13

Anthony LaLota

256

263

270

7

7

14

Greg Banks

266

274

285

8

11

19

Craig Roh

238

249

251

11

2

13

Will Heininger

261

271

267

10

-4

6

William Campbell

318

324

333

6

9

15

Ryan Van Bergen

271

280

283

9

3

12

Steve Watson

257

--

268

--

--

11

Mike Martin

292

--

299

--

--

7

Renaldo Sagesse

279

285

289

6

4

10

LINEBACKER

Player

2009

Spring

2010

Fall to Spring

Spring To Fall

2009 to 2010

Brandon Herron

220

--

220

--

--

0

Isaiah Bell

220

237

245

17

8

25

J.B. Fitzgerald

232

239

244

7

5

12

Kenny Demens

236

244

250

8

6

14

Jonas Mouton

228

--

240

--

--

12

Kevin Leach

206

200

205

-6

5

-1

Mark Moundros

233

--

233

--

--

0

Mike Jones

203

207

208

4

1

5

Obi Ezeh

243

240

250

-3

10

7

CORNERBACK

Player

2009

Spring

2010

Fall to Spring

Spring To Fall

2009 to 2010

J.T. Floyd

183

--

183

--

--

0

J.T. Turner

187

197

198

10

1

11

Troy Woolfolk

193

--

195

--

--

2

James Rogers

182

--

183

--

--

1

SAFETY

Player

2009

Spring

2010

Fall to Spring

Spring To Fall

2009 to 2010

Brandin Hawthorne

198

--

203

--

--

5

Floyd Simmons

185

--

200

--

--

15

Jordan Kovacs

194

200

195

6

-5

1

Cameron Gordon

208

--

207

--

--

-1

Mike Williams

188

--

200

--

--

12

Teric Jones

193

--

195

--

--

2

Thomas Gordon

205

--

205

--

--

0

Vladimir Emilien

198

--

204

--

--

6

Bullets on the contents herein:

Holy productive summer (and previous fall), offensive line. Molk bounced back from his injury-caused loss and is now at a respectable 285. The kids, meanwhile, are all pushing 300 after coming in significantly smaller than that. They're still a little light in the shorts, but they'll be significantly bigger than they were a year ago.

Similarly, the front seven is going to be a lot bigger even if it's Greg Banks taking over for Brandon Graham. The three returning starters put on an average of 11 pounds and Banks is 17 pounds heavier than Graham was. Not that anyone's happy about losing Graham. The linebackers, meanwhile, are all up significantly, with Isaiah Bell well on his way to becoming his own country.

Jeremy Gallon wins the Biggest Anti-Loser award for gaining more weight as a percentage of his starting weight than anyone else.

Fitzgerald Toussaint and Vincent Smith are getting up there for guys their size; hopefully they'll have the durability to last after putting on 15 and 12 pounds, respectively.

Turners extra 11 pounds may be the reason he's stuck behind Floyd.

The beefy tight ends must have been a bit too beefy; they've started backing down.

Not sure what to make of Quinton Washington and Will Campbell going back up after freshman years spent shedding weight. Similarly, Perry Dorrestein's 321 seems too heavy, especially for a guy who had plenty of trouble pass blocking last year and is trying to lock down the left tackle job. The other seniors-to be put on a few pounds here and there; Dorrestein's 15 is out of proportion. The Lewan-Dorrestein battle may be over before it even starts.

All college teams increase the size of their players year-to-year but if I had to bet, Michigan's has to be near the top in terms of beef added on. A symptom of youth.

Our LBs put on some lbs. In a good way. 240-250 is NFL linebacker sized. and that is awesome.

It doesnt seem like anyone really let themselves go this offseason. I was looking for someone who put on like, 15 lbs fall-spring, then had to lose 10 spring to now. I know Turner, Washington, and Campbell are all of concern... but I didnt see any glaring yo-yo-ing.

Our O-line is significanty more beefcake than it was last year. With the exception of Molk (who I do not have ANY concerns about, barring injury), we we have 2 guys just under 300 and 2 guys just over.

How does this compare to the bohemeths at Wisco and OSU?

Also, on the running backs, I am concerned about some of our wee little guys putting on so much weight. Hope this doesn't affect their speed / agility.

...only one of their offensive linemen (a RFr) weighed in at less than 300 pounds at 272 lbs. The maximum weight on the line is 350 lbs. With 18 total offensive linemen on their roster, the total weight is 5,745 lbs with an average weight of 319.16 lbs.

Nebraska

...have 26 total OLinemen on the roster, with a combined weight of 7,665 lbs. The average weight, however, is 294.81 lbs. We have 15 players below 300, a minimum weight of 260, and a maximum of 325.

OSU

...have 17 OLinemen on their roster with a combined weight of 4,990 lbs, a minimum of 234 and a maxiumum of 321. tOSU's average weight is 293.52 lbs. So out of the 3, they have the least depth based on numbers, AND the lightest OL. Yet they don't seem to have many problems.

Projected starting OL coming in at an average weight of 298.4 lbs. Not bad considering Rodriguez's reputation for having small guys on the line. Good weight and solid mobility sounds like a winning combination to me.

Somewhere, Mike Gittleson eats a pizza and wonders how Barwis does it...

" Not bad considering Rodriguez's reputation for having small guys on the line"

What is your support for this? Can anyone who believes this point me to a single RR quote in which he says that he wants tiny little linemen? In fact, didn't RR say in yesterday's presser, that as long as they can move, the bigger the better?

Perhaps I missed the point, then. I read Chollis as saying that he was impressed with RR having such a large line, given his propensity for having a smaller line. I am also happy about our line size. It was the belief that RR has such a proponsity - for a smaller line - that I was taking issue with.

In Freep-world, RR is a classless bass-turd who hates families and works his players 80-90 hrs/wk. This is reputation. The propensity of RR is to support his players while trying, along with his staff and some wolves, to maximize their potential.

I think chollis is refering to the shrimpy but fast lineman meme which floats around the spread won't work in the Big Ten crowd.

I have been contemplating a comparison of two deep weights by position group across the Big Ten, and including RIch's last two teams at WVU - but never seem to get enough time to really get started on the analysis and post up the findings. My thinking is, if we could show that our "power" position groups (O Line, Ends, D Line and MLBs) are in the ball park of our competition it would give us a decimated defense-like comeback to this stupid wimpy-spread-won't-work argument.

Even with Barwis, big linemen that can move probably takes an extra year to develop, over the pizza eating type. Our guys are finally arriving at trajectory, now if we can sustain ...

Apologies to all for not spelling that out better in my initial comment. Had to type fast. Free pizza in the office.

I'm with you all: a big, mobile, physical line is something that can only serve to make this team better, as well as help dispel those rumors that the spread needs glorified TE's manning the line. As maizebluenc said, the trajectory is where RR wants it to be, now it's all about sustaining while continuing development.

In the Wolverine preview magazine, the coaches tend to find at least one positive thing to say about a player before making the motivational statements. Not in Bell's case... all Robinson had to say was "the kid has a lot of work ahead of him" or something to that effect. Speculating that he may have effort issues. He looked a little out of shape to me in some spring photos - wondering if he gained too much bad weight his first year.

Please god, let Molk stay healthy this year.. I see our Line pushing people around and allowing V smith and Toussaint to run wild hopefully.. Also if Shaw and Cox can contribute, but for some reason I really think Toussaint will be the surprise of the year.

Of course JT was overrated. He's already a bust. I mean every good player in CFB history contributed immediately as a freshmen. None of them need adjustment time to the college game or academic life or dealing with the social pressures of being a student athlete at a major institution.

/sarcasm(although I hope to God you already could tell)

"At worst we failed at trying to do the right thing rather than succeed at doing the wrong thing.."

Incredibly. one year ago today we were still awaiting word on Witty, JT Turner and Jason Forcier. Perhaps we should give Turner a bit more time to develop. I'm willing to wait until at least the Indiana game

Regarding tall CBs, it's harder for CB to get down low in backpedal and get out of the break as quickly as possible. Height matters when there's a jumpball situtation or in the red zone. Ideally, you want CB to be 6' or 6'1" yet have loose hips and is a good athlete.

﻿Not sure what to make of Quinton Washington and Will Campbell going back up after freshman years spent shedding weight. Similarly, Perry Dorrestein's 321 seems too heavy, especially for a guy who had plenty of trouble pass blocking last year and is trying to lock down the left tackle job. The other seniors-to be put on a few pounds here and there; Dorrestein's 15 is out of proportion. The Lewan-Dorrestein battle may be over before it even starts.

Here's what we can probably make out of Washington and Campbell's weight changes.

I sent Brian the weight changes since spring (I had saved that roster), so he can fill this out more completely. Another big gainer on the O-line is Christian Pace, who's put on 21 lbs and is up to 280.